Hard Truths: Last News

TORONTO – Pansy is angry. She’s angry at the woman in line with her at the grocery store checkout.

Actress Claire Foy is ready and braced for a lot of personal reactions to her latest film All of Us Strangers. Adapted from Taichi Yamada’s novel Strangers, writer-director Andrew Haigh’s emotional reimagining finds gay screenwriter Adam (Andrew Scott) working on a script inspired by a devastating personal tragedy: in the early ’80s, both his parents died in a car crash when he was just 12. Seeking inspiration, Adam travels back to his childhood neighborhood where he encounters his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) — not only still living in his former home but looking exactly the same as the last time he saw them.

“Isn’t it weird that I keep making my plots revolve around this?” Nicole Holofcener asks with a laugh. We’re talking about her new film “You Hurt My Feelings” (in theaters Friday), but we’re also talking about her very first feature, the wonderful “Walking and Talking,” in which a key moment of emotional turmoil occurs when a character accidentally overhears what another character really thinks of them.

The Lost Daughter filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal and actress Dakota Johnson were attracted to the hard, often unattractive truths — particularly about motherhood — that too often go unexplored in cultural conversation that the film explores.

Jennifer Aniston, 52, has reflected on the emotional experiences she and her co-stars faced while filming the two-hour long landmark Friends reunion, which was streamed on HBO Max earlier this year. The Morning Show actress said the special, which she and her co-stars attended with “blissful ignorance”, was like “a sucker punch to the heart”.Jennifer, who played Rachel Green in the hit NBC show, admitted that the young cast were “all bright eyed and bushy-tailed, looking toward the future, but there was a lot to come for everyone” when the show ended.She added: “Hard truths and changes and loss and babies and marriages and divorces and miscarriages.”Jennifer explained that she and her co-stars – Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer,

Carly Pearce and Ashley McBryde have teamed up for their first-ever duet.

Reginald C. Ponder When John Singleton co-created the FX crime series “Snowfall,” he aimed to use a drama about the drug trade to tell a deeper story about life in South Central Los Angeles — and America in general.“Snowfall” hit that bull’s-eye.

By Dominic Patten, Pete Hammond